This document discusses career development frameworks and current practices in career education. It outlines key terminology used in career development and summarizes the essential elements of career education programs in different educational settings. The document also describes the Australian Blueprint for Career Development, which provides 11 competencies to guide career education across one's lifespan.

1. Career Development
Bernadette Gigliotti
Director – CEAV

2. Career Development
Framework
Developed by CICA
• The National Standards for Career
Practitioners
• The Australian Blueprint for Career
Development
• Guiding Principles for career
Development Services and Products

3. Terminology
• Career development – the process of
managing life, learning and work over the
lifespan (CICA2006)
• Career Practitioner – an umbrella term
that refers to direct service providers in
career development field; career
counsellors; work experience
coordinators; employment counsellors,;
career educators; employment support
workers ….

4. Terminology
• Career – paid and unpaid roles
across the lifespan ; life roles; leisure
learning; work
• Career education – development of
skills, knowledge and attitudes
through planned program of
learning experiences in education,
training and work settings

5. Current Practice in Career
Education
Government Schools
- Aligned to VELs Level 5&6 –
Humanities
- Careers education part of teaching
allotment
- Managed Individual Pathways –
SSO’s
- On Track data – post compulsory

6. Current Practice in Career
Education
Catholic schools
- Aligned to Pathways Policy
- Vocational Assessments Year 10
- Career education part of teaching
allotment or full time careers
- Emphasis on Subject Selection
- On Track data – post compulsory

7. Current Practice in Career
Education
Independent Schools
- Aligned to school vision and mission
- Assess at Year 10 for Subject
Selection ENTER capabilities
- Full time qualified practitioner
- Some timetabled classes
- On Track data – post compulsory

8. Current Practice in Career
Education
Many examples of quality career education
• Individual school level
• State initiatives
• Federal initiatives
• Career practitioners
• Resources
http://www.deewr.gov.au
http://www.education.vic.gov.au

9. The Professional Standards for
career practitioners
7 elements that frame career development
work:
• Career development theory
• Labour market information
• Ethical practice
• Advanced communication skills
• Diversity- cultural sensitivity
• Information and resource management
• Professional practice

10. Career Development theory
Includes:
- Styles of counselling
- Career tools- audit tools, vocational
assessments tools, MIP’s, Blueprint,
Employability Skills
- Career polices or frameworks – VELs,
Victorian Blueprint for education,
Employability Skills Framework

11. Essential elements of Career
Education
• self awareness
• career exploration
• career decision making
• career management skills

12. The Australian Blueprint
11 Competencies
- Underpinning career development
across the life span
- Phases I- IV
- Phase II – middle years of schooling
- Phase III – senior secondary

13. The Blueprint
• The Blueprint is a set of 11competencies
• A national framework of competencies that
aims to help Australians to better mange their
lives, learning and work; to cope with change.
• Process for planning, implementing and
evaluating career programs and resources that
will assist all Australians to gain career
development competencies

14. The Blueprint
• Identify career competencies – from
primary school to adulthood
• Facilitate service consistency
• Challenge assumptions about
career development
• Accelerates the establishment of a
career development culture

15. The Blueprint Applications
• The Blueprint
- Individuals and groups in consultation with
clients/students
- program review to map competencies
- organizational level to assist with professional
development of staff

16. Blueprint Competencies
3 key areas:
Area A Personal Management
Area B Learning and Work Exploration
Area C Career Building
11 main career competencies; 3 in Area
A; three in Area B; 5 in Area C

17. Career Programs Yr7 & 8
Focus on:
- Self awareness activities
- Values, talents, skill development ,
goal setting
- Researching career industries,
profiles,
- Learning education terminologies
- Creating portfolios

18. Career Programs Yr 9&10
Focus on
• Decision making activities – how, what,
why of choice – exploring impact of
choices on social or life influences
• Learning the terminology of pathways
• Re defining interests, values , goal setting
• Building portfolio sections – skills,
knowledge, life experiences

19. Career Programs Yr 11 &12
Focus on
• Building portfolios – demonstrating
skills, knowledge, life experiences,
networks
• Learning the terminology of choice
• Exploring the impact of life choices
• Action planning and Goal setting

20. Career development
• Can’t be delivered in isolation of
one’s life experiences
• Holistic in it’s nature
• Doesn’t rely on numeric result
• Provides the basis for ongoing
learning and development
• Crictical core business in every
school, community and organisation